Negativity doesn’t always present itself in an obvious way. There are three sources from which it usually breeds: 1) your relationships, 2) yourself, and 3) your environment. Whether you’   Read more >>

Everyone loves the quote “laughter is the best medicine,” and as a nurse, I have experienced the benefits of smiling and laughter with my patients. In fact, smiling can boost your mood a   Read more >>

Making someone happy is a matter of being sensitive to one’s needs. Many pursue the common approach of knowing what the other wants in order to bring them happiness, but the truth however is th   Read more >>

An overflowing wallet can buy you happiness but it does not guarantee respect, a worldwide study published Thursday found.Researchers asked 136,000 people in 132 countries around the world about wha   Read more >>

How happy are you now? How is it compared with yesterday? With last week? As it turns out, comparing happiness, even of the same person at different times, is tricky. Why? Because our experiences c   Read more >>

I admit it. I’m a worrywart. I’ve been one all my life. In fact, worrying is my life. Recent world events haven’t helped matters. And frankly, I don’t know whether I’m   Read more >>

Many of us believe that we will achieve happiness only through great effort, and we spend a lifetime seeking it. But unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there’s nothin   Read more >>

Cameron Marlow (left), a social scientist at Facebook, monitors status updates to gauge how happy people are.
Credit: Brant Ward / The ChronicleResearch scientists Cameron Marlow and D.J. Patil have   Read more >>

Mycobacterium vaccae bacteria are already known to decrease anxiety, but it might have even more dramatic properties. Recent studies on mice suggest the bacteria, commonly found in the soils of peop   Read more >>

Life looks a little rosier after 50, a new study finds. Older people in their mid- to late-50s are generally happier, and experience less stress and worry than young adults in their 20s, the researc   Read more >>

The Beatles told us money "Can't Buy Me Love," but can money buy happiness?That's a question of great exploration and academic research lately. And it's infiltrated the pages of some best-selling   Read more >>

We tend to focus on our problems in life and to take for granted our blessings and achievements. It is natural that we think about the difficulties we face and the challenges we have to overcome but   Read more >>

Highly happy people all share happy habits. It’s as simple as that. The happiest people I know share seven very obvious habits. If you’re looking to expand your general happiness, you ma   Read more >>

Look at the picture closely: Is the glass half full or half empty?The BBC website published a report Optimistic women ‘live longer’. This was based on a research carried out by a group   Read more >>

Why Are Rabbits So Happy?Stalk us on Facebook and Twitter or grab the RSS FeedWell, first of all, because they have a lot of sex, and that makes everyone happy. They can also lick their own pink bit   Read more >>

He slowly counted the stack of $100 bills out loud and stopped at every thousand to confirm the number as he handed me the bills. It was a silly process but he seemed to find it useful. I wasn&rsquo   Read more >>

"The billion-dollar question is, is it possible to become happier?" said psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky of the University of California, Riverside. "Despite the finding that happiness is partially g   Read more >>

Aging brings wrinkles, sagging bodies and frustrating forgetfulness. But getting older is not all bad for many people. Mounting evidence suggests aging may be a key to happiness. There is conflictin   Read more >>

I read this list in a biography of the English writer Sydney Smith, in Hesketh Pearson’s The Smith of Smiths. In 1820, Smith wrote a letter to an unhappy friend, Lady Morpeth, in which he offer   Read more >>

Everyone has a few tricks for beating the blues—things you do when you’re feeling down to try to boost your mood. It turns out, however, that several of the most popular strategies don&r   Read more >>